Choice Quotes

There seemed to be three choices: to give up trying to love anyone, to stop being selfish, or to learn to love a person while continuing to be selfish.

~ Lydia Davis

What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

There is a time in every life when paths are chosen, character is forged. I could have chosen a different path. But I didn’t. I failed myself.

~ Libba Bray

If you limit your choice only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

~ Robert Fritz

If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for ... but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. In case of doubt, vote against. By this rule you will rarely go wrong.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

I guess in the end, it doesn’t matter what we wanted. What matters is what we chose to do with the things we had.

~ Mira Grant

You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition

~ Philippa Gregory

There's small choice in rotten apples.

~ William Shakespeare

I was trying so hard to find the single pivotal moment that set my life on its path. The moment that answered the question, 'How did I get here?'But it's never just one moment. It's a series of them. And your life can branch out from each one in a thousand different ways. Maybe there's a version of your life for all the choices you make and all the choices you don't.

~ Nicola Yoon

Stand at the crossroads if you will, but if you'll not choose, I'll move on without you

~ Jacqueline Carey

I’m a monster,” said the shadow of the Marquess suddenly. “Everyone says so.” The Minotaur glanced up at her. “So are we all, dear,” said the Minotaur kindly. “The thing to decide is what kind of monster to be. The kind who builds towns or the kind who breaks them.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours.

~ Zig Ziglar

Everyone has the abbility to hurt. It's the choice that matters.

~ Yvonne Woon

They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...and the other one scared me out of my mind.

~ Frederik Pohl

[Research] suggests that what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating on automatic pilot, and the way we think and act – and how well we think and act on the spur of the moment – are a lot more susceptible to outside influences than we realize.

~ Malcolm Gladwell

There are things you do sometimes, actions that you take by obeying sudden impulses, without stopping for even a fraction of a second to think, and then you spend the rest of your life either lamenting it or thanking yourself for it. They are rare, unique, and perfect moments.

~ Irene Gonzalez Frei

You always have a choice. Don't ever imagine you don't. Whatever you do, it's a decision and you have to accept responsibility for it. That's when honor becomes more than empty words.

~ Lynn Flewelling

Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

All I'm saying is that you shouldn't stay with him for the wrong reasons, even if they are noble ones. No one owes it to someone else to be their girlfriend. It's a choice you remake every day.

~ Aprilynne Pike

My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.

~ Buddy Hackett

You will always define events in a manner which will validate your agreement with reality.

~ Steve Maraboli

It would be easy to become a victim of our circumstances and continue feeling sad, scared or angry; or instead, we could choose to deal with injustice humanely and break the chains of negative thoughts and energies, and not let ourselves sink into it.

~ Erin Gruwell

To choose not to choose is still a choice for which you alone are responsible.

~ Gary Cox

We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them, and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring about more perfect moments.

~ Mary Balogh

I dare say it is rather hard to be a rat,” she mused. “Nobody likes you. People jump and run away and scream out: ‘Oh, a horrid rat!’ I shouldn’t like people to scream and jump and say: ‘Oh, a horrid Sara!’ the moment they saw me, and set traps for me, and pretend they were dinner. It’s so different to be a sparrow. But nobody asked this rat if he wanted to be a rat when he was made. Nobody said: ‘Wouldn’t you rather be a sparrow?

~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

But I don't care what you think, not about these things anyway. If you don't think they're real or important or you think that we'll all grow out of this nonsense, well, that's not really my business. I can't tell you what's real for you. But in return, you can't say what's real for me either. I get to choose. Not you.

~ Patrick Ness

I wish sometimes that the gods would either choose better, or make their wishes clearer

~ Jacqueline Carey

But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man. A cat has no choice, a bee must make honey. There's no godliness there.

~ John Steinbeck

There comes a moment in every life when the Universe presents you with an opportunity to rise to your potential. An open door that only requires the heart to walk through, seize it and hang on.The choice is never simple. It’s never easy. It’s not supposed to be. But those who travel this path have always looked back and realizedthat the test was always about the heart. ...The rest is just practice.

~ Jaime Buckley

We do not need to operate according to the idea of a predetermined program for our lives.

~ John O'donohue

At some point the choice you will face is whether to carry out your duties or live your life

~ Cayla Kluver

In a moment, everything can change and in a moment, you can change everything.

~ Daniel Wallace

I never gave him a chance to decide if I was worth loving. I'd taken that choice away from him - because I feared what it would be.

~ Rebecca Donovan

She looked out at the other trees, and she realised that her life was one of thousands, any one of which could have been her, she had grown wherever her life had taken her, she had drifted wherever the wind had blown her.

~ Dave Mckean

I certainly supported a woman's right to choose, but to my mind the time to choose was before, not after the fact.

~ Ann B. Ross

You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself.

~ John Scalzi

Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.

~ Barbara De Angelis

It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.

~ Rumer Godden

I'll be damned if I apologize for the choices I've made. They were hard decisions, but I had good reasons for making them.

~ Christine Feehan